Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that day Swiss, Dutch, French and English newspapers published the following item: "Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, ex-legal adviser of the pre-Hitler Prussian State Police Administration was executed by a firing squad of the Nazi Secret Police (Gestapo) as an enemy of the Hitler Regime." He actually had caught me, but after three weeks of the third degree, friends succeeded in getting my release and I could escape death. Himmler's and Heydrich's police machinery is terrible but can be smashed easier than most people think...
Then there is the excitement every collector knows at finding a long-sought item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which...
Since, even before the poll was taken, Durant stated that restrictions on beverages might be removed, the 374 men who voted for seconds on that item are likely to get what they wanted. Durant has also said that ice cream may soon be allowed as a substitute for other deserts. But the main course seconds, which 181, students wanted most, will be more expensive, and there are as yet no indications that it will be granted...
...Chairman Joseph J. Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, Franklin Roosevelt sent a stern reminder that he had not yet gotten action on his long-cherished St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway is now a $277,000,000 item in a $990,000,000 catch-all pork-barrel bill. Its prospects are not good. The bill is buried deep down in the House calendar, with a conservative Rules Committee sitting on its chest. If it ever staggers up, bitter, bespectacled Representative Alfred Beiter of Buffalo, N.Y. (who sees his home town as a deserted village if the bill is passed...
Blues in the Night (Jimmy Lunceford orchestra; 2 sides, Decca; and Dinah Shore, Bluebird). A song from the Warner Brothers movie of the same name which may start a trend back to the blues. Decca is betting that it is the most terrific item of its kind since St. Louis Blues. Three Decca discs of Blues in the Night have already sold 400,000 copies...